Hmm... well, Brazil is a lot more japanophily than Costa Rica, so. Basically, the people that are into Japanese stuff are mostly in it for the anime, and if they're not in it for the anime, then they're honestly interested in just the culture and don't really spare much thought for the nuttier products of japanese pop culture. (These are a tiny minority).
I don't think I've met one person that is into japanese live-action anything-that-is-not-horror. But then, I kind of am not really IN costarican fandom.
But anyway, no one knows what the hell I'm talking about if I say "Kamen Rider". Older people remember Ultraman, but most people just go straight to Power Rangers.
Well, it really depends on the age range too. People my age and older all watched toku as kids because we had a channel here that aired toku for a good six-eight years, so if you pull their memory with "remember, Kamen Rider Black, Jiraya, Juspion, Winspector, Changeman, all that stuff?" they'll vaguely remember something to do with Japanese people and power suits. People younger than me are either only interested in animu or default back to "oh, it's Japanese Power Rangers".
I'm not in the Brazillian toku fandom either. Or any Brazillian fandoms, really. Brazillian fans scare me a bit. They're not very... reasonable about things. :D;;;
I'm not in the Brazillian toku fandom either. Or any Brazillian fandoms, really. Brazillian fans scare me a bit. They're not very... reasonable about things. :D;;;
Yeeeeeeeeah, here too. ANd because Costa Rica is SMALL, it means that most of them are trekkies/star wars uber geeks/speak tolkien elvish. And that shit scares me. :D/
And then being in design I meet another type. Pretentious Fanboy Who Is Only Interested In Deep And Meaningful Anime. :D/
...Shoichi is. The first episode had barely started when I thought "Daaaaaamn, this one is a bigger dumbass than SHINJI."
I love this part:
Shoichi: Maybe I was a really smart college student before! 8D Math: *exists* Shoichi: ...... >[ Math: *exists some more* Shoichi: I know! I wasn't a smart college student after all! 8D/
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:14 am (UTC)Hmm... well, Brazil is a lot more japanophily than Costa Rica, so. Basically, the people that are into Japanese stuff are mostly in it for the anime, and if they're not in it for the anime, then they're honestly interested in just the culture and don't really spare much thought for the nuttier products of japanese pop culture. (These are a tiny minority).
I don't think I've met one person that is into japanese live-action anything-that-is-not-horror. But then, I kind of am not really IN costarican fandom.
But anyway, no one knows what the hell I'm talking about if I say "Kamen Rider". Older people remember Ultraman, but most people just go straight to Power Rangers.
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:22 am (UTC)I'm not in the Brazillian toku fandom either. Or any Brazillian fandoms, really. Brazillian fans scare me a bit. They're not very... reasonable about things. :D;;;
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:32 am (UTC)Yeeeeeeeeah, here too. ANd because Costa Rica is SMALL, it means that most of them are trekkies/star wars uber geeks/speak tolkien elvish. And that shit scares me. :D/
And then being in design I meet another type. Pretentious Fanboy Who Is Only Interested In Deep And Meaningful Anime. :D/
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:33 am (UTC)(You are totally right about the Kagami and Shinji thing XD)
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-13 03:44 am (UTC)I love this part:
Shoichi: Maybe I was a really smart college student before! 8D
Math: *exists*
Shoichi: ...... >[
Math: *exists some more*
Shoichi: I know! I wasn't a smart college student after all! 8D/
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:54 am (UTC)Man, I love Shoichi so much. He's such a cute puppy-faced dumb sweetheart x3♥
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Date: 2009-04-13 03:56 am (UTC)